Barfi - Sweet & Spiritual

I went to see Barfi with the memories of ‘Sadma’ and ‘Koshish ‘ and came out of theatre speechless . The central theme of new film Barfi is that true love is that which is always unplanned , unpremeditated & a pure impulse of the heart unaffected by the voices in mind . Barfi relays the message of true love very well ,probably better than any of the previous movies which tried to do same in the past. The beauty of Barfi’s character is that his disability as well as Jhilmils’s mental disorder are just incidental to the film and not the core plot of the theme – the movie is about love – falling in love, losing it, and winning it back.

Here is the test: Your best friend or your one true love makes you stand in front of the lamp-post, he cuts the lamp-post and he knows how far it will fall down, but he won’t tell you and you are there standing with him seeing the lamp-post fall down towards you – what would be your first reaction? The reaction from most of us who are born with all our senses working great and without any disability – physical or mental of any kind and who think always rationally , would be to save ourselves from the falling lamp-post.

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That’s the rational thing to do – but Jhilmil the autistic girl does not leave Barfi’s (who is deaf and dumb) side – she is the only one who passes his test. Neither his best friend of years and nor his first love Shruti stand beside him, not trusting his judgement of where the the lamp-post will fall . That scene sums up the entire movie for us – love is all about trust and belief.

Here are few of the other spiritual messages which are very well defined and conveyed to audience by all major characters repeatedly in the movie .

Biggest virtue in life is finding happiness in the smallest things in life

When we fall in love, we do so without thinking, we never decide and love… it just happens

Life mein sabse bada risk hota hai kabhi koi risk na lena (The biggest risk in life is to never take any risks).

Barfi is just so pure – yes in every aspect the film overflows with simplicity and purity and that is so rare to find these days in Bollywood films.If you have experienced love – please go relive it again with Barfi, if you have not fallen in love go watch Barfi to know how beautiful ,blissful and painful it can be ….